[rglullis]

If you go through your contact list right now, how many people are on iOS, and how many of them do you think you could successfully convince to use XMPP as the primary method to reach you?

With Matrix, I don't need to convince them.

[tetraca]

I don't know iOS users, except one, who already used XMPP. Most people I talk to on a regular basis already use it. The ones that don't either don't bother with apps at all (my grandparents), or are not close enough / frequent enough contacts to bother with anything beyond SMS.

[zaik]

Monal on iOS has made it quite easy to convince people to contact me via XMPP. Right now I have 31 XMPP contacts and 1 Matrix contact.

[rglullis]

Your about page: Interests: XMPP, OpenStreetMap, Wikidata.

Nice, I'd like to be friends with you. But do you realize that maybe, just maybe, you are facing a bit of availability bias?

[zaik]

Oh sure, but it's still a counterexample to your statement. I can convince people to use XMPP, and almost nobody is using Matrix if you don't do the convincing.

[rglullis]

But you don't need to do the convincing with Matrix, because of its bridges.

[rakoo]

XMPP also has a good set of bridges though.